World-class filmmakers to lecture at JiFFest

World-class filmmakers to lecture at JiFFest

Faced with a short supply of quality screenplays in the
domestic film industry, the Jakarta International Film Festival
(JiFFest) is planning to organize workshops in script writing.

Participants for the workshop, slated for Dec. 10 and Dec. 18
will benefit from lectures given by top-notch scriptwriters like
David Howard and Graeme Isaacs.

Howard, writer of The Tools to Screenwriting, is an Emmy
winner and has been lauded for his sci-fi hit Galaxy Quest, while
Isaacs was nominated for best world cinema documentary at the
Sundance film festival for his film Dhakiyarr vs the King.

Other luminaries due to lecture are Australian award-winning
producer Curtis Levy and winner at the 2005 Sundance film
festival Leonard Retel Helmrich.

The workshop will have programs to develop scriptwriting
skills for short fiction, short documentary, feature and long
documentary films.

Workshop participants will be selected from professionals in
the film industry and those who aspire to take the plunge.

In each category, JiFFest will select 10 professional writers
and 20 observers.

Those who are not selected to be participants may register as
observers, an arrangement that enables them to sit in and watch.

A script development competition is to be held in tandem with
the workshop; contest winners will get a cash prize that they
could use to develop their films.

The deadline for entries was Oct. 15.

For further information contact :

JiFFest

Jl. Sutan Syahrir I C

Blok 3 - 4

Jakarta 10350

Contact:

tel. 3192 5115

fax. 3192 5360

e-mail: info@jiffest.org

on the net: www.jiffest.org